Computing in English and Scottish Language & Literature
Teaching programs
STELLA has created teaching programs especially for courses in the School of English and Scottish
Literature and Language (SESLL). The software includes The Essentials of Old English, English Grammar:
an Introduction, The Basics of English Metre, ARIES: Punctuation, Grammar & Spelling, A Guide to
Scottish Literature, An Introduction to Older Scots, A Guide to Robert Henryson, Romanticism the CD, and
A Guide to Piers Plowman and more.
These programs are available in all Arts Faculty computer rooms: DISH, 1 & 2 University Gardens; HATII,
11 University Gardens and STELLA, at 6 University Gardens, which is especially for students of SESLL.
For advice or assistance with the STELLA programs, contact Mrs Jean Anderson, room 201, 6 University
Gardens, email J.Anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk.
To use the programs in an Arts Faculty computer room:
1. Log in
2. Open the folder 'Class Applications' by double clicking on it,
3. Open the folder for your subject (English Language, Scottish Literature or English Literature),
4. Run the program of your choice by double clicking on it.
The programs are all very easy to use and even computer novices can use them to learn Grammar or Old
English etc..
Accessing STELLA programs in GUL
Some programs for Level 1 and Level 2 courses are also available in the GU Library and Reading Room
computing areas. To access the programs in the Library:
1. Log in
2. On the task bar at the bottom of the screen, you will see 'Novell Delivered Applications'. Click
on it to open it.
3. Open the 'Arts Faculty Class Applications' folder.
4. Choose your department, English Language.
5. Double click on the name of the program you want to run.
Reference packages
Dictionaries
In the 'General Reference' folder (on the PCs in Arts Faculty labs), you will find the Oxford English
Dictionary and the Oxford Concise Dictionary & Thesaurus.
Corpora
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In the 'General Reference' folder, there is the British National Corpus Sampler (It contains a small
portion of the full corpus - only 1 million words.)
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In the 'Class Applications', 'English Language' folder, there is the Helsinki Corpus. (It has extracts
from texts in Old, Middle and Early Modern English, divided by period and by genre.)
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In the 'General Applications' folder, there is ICECUP3 - this program gives you access to the
International Corpus of English, British English section.
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We also have the Australian Corpus of English (ACE) using Wordsmith and the Corpus of London
Teenage English (COLT) using TACT.
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In the 'General Applications' folder, you will find the text analysis programs TACT and Wordsmith.
There are worksheets for the text analysis programs on the STELLA shelves.
World Web Web Links
STELLA Links for English & Scottish Literature & Language
(http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/links.htm) should be the first place you look for good Web sites
for your studies. There are hundreds of links, organised by topic, and approved by departmental staff.
The STELLA Links Index
Organisations | Gateways and Humanities Resources | Text Archives & Corpora
English Language | Linguistics, Phonetics and Speech | History of the Language and Literature
English Literature | Scottish Literature and Language
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Glasgow University Library has extensive links useful for your studies: see MERLIN Workstation, Library
& Net Resources (http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/Resources/index.html).
There are Databases - Local and networked databases including CD-ROMs, BIDS and OCLC FirstSearch;
links to other libraries and catalogues; over 3000 networked journals arranged alphabetically and by subject;
search engines and subject gateways for web pages, people and newsgroups; reference sources for acronyms,
telephone directories, dictionaries and business and travel information, newspapers and current affairs; and,
of course, exam papers.
The Department Web Page At http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/ you will find the School of English and
Scottish Literature and Language Web pages. Each Department has sections for each level of classes. You
can find handbooks giving an introduction and general information for your course, timetables, and also
course materials for some classes. See e.g. English Language, Undergraduate Studies, Level 1.
Email
It is a GU rule that we must use student (and staff) University email addresses when communicating on GU
business (not Hotmail, Yahoo or any other outside accounts). If you want to pick up mail using one of these
other accounts, you should put a 'Forward' statement on your GU student email account.
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Choose Preferences from the top menu, scroll down until you see Forwarding
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Click Enabled Yes
Click Keep Copy Yes
Enter your other email account address
Backup Copies of your Computer Work
Disks can be lost, made unreadable by coffee spills or by being put too near speakers in radios, hi-fi systems
etc. Everyone in the University has a Home directory, the H: drive, where you can store your work. No one
else can see the files on your H: drive; it is only accessible with your password.
You should always have backup copies of your essays and dissertations. Save your files to the H: drive and
to floppy disk. If you save your work to your H: drive, you can access it from any networked computer on
campus. If you word process your work to hand in to your tutor, you should remember that it is your
responsibility to ensure that you have a backup copy. If you lose a disk or it becomes corrupted, that might
not be accepted as an excuse for late submission of work.
If you are unsure about any of the above, you should attend the IT course. For information on basic
computing courses, see the Information Technology Education Unit web page at
http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/index.htm
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